STEVENSON-KAATSCH
iPF Noob
- Joined
- Dec 31, 2014
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I am a simple soul. I don't use my iPad to do gaming, run my life or program fuel maps on racing cars. I send emails to my few friends. I look at eBay and sometimes bid on stuff. I write chapters for my novel and also add my opinion to a few forum to which I have an interest.
My iPad has been given new and extremely irritating new features of late, which if it could be done, I would switch off. I detest predictive text. Unless I physically make an action to substitute my spelling, I want it to remain as I have typed it. Also, when I swipe the page to scroll through long lists of information, I do not want the page to go grey and demand I adjust some feature or another, neither do I want to consult a notional diary that my life is too interesting to ever want to waste time pigging about with. I just want what I have on the wretched screen, nothing else.
One can imagine the air-headed, other-worldly techno-nerds in Cupertino or wherever they lurk, trying to think up ever more ways to make their customers lives more 'integrated' with the blooming technology. All I want is an 'off' switch to turn their stupid ideas off, and let me rule my life my own way.
Am I a lone voice in my own silly little world, or are there others with their own axes to grind ? I also wonder if those self-same techno-geeks have come up with that most usful of devices, a program that can dredge the web for product feedback such as my current missive ? In trying to join the official Apple forum, I was told I needed an unrelated email address in order to proceed. It was then that I knew for certain that they had lost the plot.... The old boss (God rest his soul) would never have stood for such nonsense.
My iPad has been given new and extremely irritating new features of late, which if it could be done, I would switch off. I detest predictive text. Unless I physically make an action to substitute my spelling, I want it to remain as I have typed it. Also, when I swipe the page to scroll through long lists of information, I do not want the page to go grey and demand I adjust some feature or another, neither do I want to consult a notional diary that my life is too interesting to ever want to waste time pigging about with. I just want what I have on the wretched screen, nothing else.
One can imagine the air-headed, other-worldly techno-nerds in Cupertino or wherever they lurk, trying to think up ever more ways to make their customers lives more 'integrated' with the blooming technology. All I want is an 'off' switch to turn their stupid ideas off, and let me rule my life my own way.
Am I a lone voice in my own silly little world, or are there others with their own axes to grind ? I also wonder if those self-same techno-geeks have come up with that most usful of devices, a program that can dredge the web for product feedback such as my current missive ? In trying to join the official Apple forum, I was told I needed an unrelated email address in order to proceed. It was then that I knew for certain that they had lost the plot.... The old boss (God rest his soul) would never have stood for such nonsense.